Heather Cox Richardson Enters the History of ‘Lincoln Portrait’

[David Lockmiller]

The New York Times reports today:

Cox Richardson, the historian behind the newsletter Letters From an American, discusses preparing for the narrator role in Aaron Copland’s piece.

She says in the interview with the New York Times:

"Although Lincoln certainly was no saint, he has, at least in his mythology, a somewhat cleaner reputation than some of America’s other great figures."

[David Lockmiller]

Also in the New York Times today is this story:

Trump Administration Will Reinstall Confederate Statue in Washington

Albert Pike was a Confederate general and diplomat who negotiated alliances with slave-owning Native American tribes during the Civil War.

The Trump administration will restore and reinstall the only statue that had honored a Confederate official in the U.S. capital after demonstrators toppled and set it on fire during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

The defaced statue depicts Albert Pike, a Confederate diplomat and general who worked closely with Native Americans from slave-owning tribes that sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War and fought to protect slavery as an institution. He was also a prominent leader of the Freemasons — a secretive fraternal society that included many powerful politicians and elite figures in the 18th and 19th centuries.

[Gene C]

The Alfred Pike statue was dedicated by the Freemasons in 1901 in honor of his leadership according to NPR

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/05/nx-s1-549...-reinstall